DanCarvajal

Well I did say that I was simplifying somethings, which I think is useful as this is kind of a classic shorthand way of comparing example food chains for the layperson. My goal was to not lose the forest for the trees.

Come to think of it, I talk to a lot of five years olds which has definitely impacted how I approach topics.

Got to see my first whale earlier this year (Gray Whale) and on the way home I kept tying to hype my SO up on the fact that it's a privilege to be alive on this planet at the same time as the largest animals ever (the whales specifically the Blue). Hoping to see some Orcas later this year on a PNW trip.

Oceans as an ecosystem are fascinating. This is simplified but on land the food chain is usually something like Plant-Herbivore-Predator but in the ocean the food chain is much longer, algae-Zooplankton--Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator. There's so much opportunities in the predator niche in the oceans that land animals keep going back to the ocean, because the evolutionary challenges were regularly worth it. This truly is a blue planet.

But with more reasonable humidity!

Honestly, Tulsa and Oklahoma City are pretty darn good these days and represent good options for a lot of people. Oklahoma also sneakily has a lot of great outdoor recreation and some of the best bouldering in the U.S.

Oklahoma is interesting, it's got some unique issues but I feel like most people born there never really leave.

Speaking as an Oklahoman, Texas is too Texas for its own good.

If iOS 17 does in fact have side loading I'll finally be jumping ship to a 12 of 13 mini so fast.

My PS5 is now just a Blu-ray player since I got my SteamDeck.

Was looking at a fake Audacity site just the other day. I couldn't believe it was the number one search result when I was researching progress on the project's UI redesign.

Growing up I went through the same thing and eventually talked to my mom about it and we came to the conclusion that it all went back to her parents who lived the Great Depression. When you grow up on Bread and Butter pickle sandwiches and then have industrialized food thrown at you post WWII you don't question it, but it has impacts on subsequent generations.

Funny enough the other day I had a liverwurst sandwich, something my Grandmother would have easily recognized, except I bought it from a local whole animal butcher. What was once one of the cheapest forms of meat is now rare gourmet sandwich.

Back in the day when I thought they were a very good value for quality my significant other and I would go there ALL the time. Date night was splitting a burrito and chips then catching a movie. Eventually when we got married we actually had Chipotle catering for our wedding, yes the wedding.

However, I echo the comments that it's not what it once was. I blame the queso introduction, they went through three versions and still have made a good product which now looks indicative of their larger issues. I sincerely hope they turn it around.

I'm a proud owner of an original Kickstarter copy of "Descartes Meditations, Bro" circa 2013 or something like that.

My city has a few neat adaptive reuse projects right now converting office building to residential buildings. I really hope the concept works out.

It's because these apps are longer social in the original sense of social media. Most of my family's sharing of what would have been Instagram or Facebook posts are now in a WhatsApp group I admin. Sure I would have loved to get everyone onto Signal instead but the end result has been much better experience for us.

I have a coworker who I've worked with for 9 years of which the entirety I've been sober, he offers me a beer multiple times a year.